Those of you who are model engineers in the traditional sense may realize the contributions that this lady made in her lifetime.
RIP, Cherry.
RIP, Cherry.
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Cherry Hill
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An amazing and talented person.
The book did quite a nice job on photography & presentation. Just spendy. Sometimes you can find a used one for less. Would be nice to see the models up close.
9780719814211 - Cherry's Model Engines by Carpenter, David - AbeBooks
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Gorgeous! But my eyes latched onto the stack outside the wheel and then I was stuck in first gear...... WTF is that all about? Is it really like that? How does that work? Must be some really complicated drive axle!
I can't answer. Her choice of projects included many 'mechanically interesting' machines & mechanisms of the period, I suspect largely motivated by the uniqueness of those features. What floors me is all the research, conventional drafting and (to the best of my knowledge) manual machines & handwork. Pictures of her Myford lathe & mill don't show DRO. I hope her drawings & reference documentation somehow get preserved, that would be worth seeing. At least to me. And of course hopefully her models will get proper representation in a museum somewhere. The book cites 'each model typically occupies 7,000 hours of work. She won 9 gold medals and MBE from the Queen for Services to Model Engineering'. Most of this was when the ME hobby was at its peak, which says a lot.
boilerhouse
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A member of this forum lent me this book a few years ago, and I had the pleasure of going through it. Some of Cherry's inspiration came from historic patent drawings, but in some cases, the patent didn't and couldn't lead to a working prototype, so Cherry performed the necessary engineering modifications to the original patent and produced a working model. A titan of the model engineering world who should probably get more recognition.
Johnwa
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There is a photo from slightly different angle on the website. The rear wheel is single wide cylinder that appears to run on a cylindrical track. The spokes are fixed and don’t turn. Even the engine is enclosed within the rear wheel!